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[Stop Monitoring AI Systems Like Web Services](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/stop-monitoring-ai-systems-like-web)
[Five questions every AI system has to answer, and the metrics that answer them.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/stop-monitoring-ai-systems-like-web)
Jun 14 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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### May 2026
[Agentic AI Flywheels](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/agentic-ai-flywheels)
[The production loop after your agent ships, and the eval set that grows with it.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/agentic-ai-flywheels)
May 27 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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### March 2026
[State of Context Engineering in 2026](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/state-of-context-engineering-in-2026)
[Five patterns for managing what goes into the context window, and when.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/state-of-context-engineering-in-2026)
Mar 22 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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[New: SwirlAI on YouTube + Context Engineering Workshop](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/new-swirlai-on-youtube-context-engineering)
[Hands-on AI engineering content, now in video form, plus a live workshop on context engineering this Friday](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/new-swirlai-on-youtube-context-engineering)
Mar 17 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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[Agent Skills: Progressive Disclosure as a System Design Pattern](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/agent-skills-progressive-disclosure)
[A simple file format, powered by an architectural shift in how agents manage context.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/agent-skills-progressive-disclosure)
Mar 11 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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### September 2025
[Learning AI Engineering in 2025](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/learning-ai-engineering-in-2025)
[My Reflections and Tips.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/learning-ai-engineering-in-2025)
Sep 6, 2025 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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### August 2025
[Breaking Down Context Engineering](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/breaking-down-context-engineering)
[All you ned to know about the challenges surrounding the practice.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/breaking-down-context-engineering)
Aug 30, 2025 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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### June 2025
[Enterprise Agentic AI Hierarchy of Needs](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/enterprise-agentic-ai-hierarchy-of)
[The crucial layers of infrastructure that make up a production grade Agentic AI system.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/enterprise-agentic-ai-hierarchy-of)
Jun 18, 2025 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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[Breaking into AI Engineering in 2025.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/breaking-into-ai-engineering-in-2025)
[A roadmap that will help you up-skill or re-skill into an AI Engineer role.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/breaking-into-ai-engineering-in-2025)
Jun 4, 2025 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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### May 2025
[Evaluation Driven Development for Agentic Systems.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/evaluation-driven-development-for)
[My step-by-step approach for building and evolving Agentic Systems that work.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/evaluation-driven-development-for)
May 22, 2025 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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[Announcing the End-to-End AI Engineering Bootcamp.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/announcing-the-end-to-end-ai-engineering)
[Also join me this Thursday in a free Lightning Lesson on how to break into AI Engineering.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/announcing-the-end-to-end-ai-engineering)
May 13, 2025 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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[Distributing FlashAttention: Solving memory Bottlenecks of Context Windows](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/distributing-flashattention-solving)
[Let's explore FlashAttention, types of distributed LLM training and how to fuse both concepts together.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/distributing-flashattention-solving)
May 11, 2025 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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### April 2025
[MCP vs. A2A: Friends or Foes?](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/mcp-vs-a2a-friends-or-foes)
[Could MCP fade into irrelevance in long term?](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/mcp-vs-a2a-friends-or-foes)
Apr 13, 2025 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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[The evolution of Modern RAG Architectures.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/the-evolution-of-modern-rag-architectures)
[Learn how to choose the best RAG architecture for your business case.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/the-evolution-of-modern-rag-architectures)
Apr 7, 2025 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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### March 2025
[Everything you need to know about MCP.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/everything-you-need-to-know-about)
[And why it is important for how we shape and build Agentic Systems.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/everything-you-need-to-know-about)
Mar 15, 2025 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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[Building Deep Research Agent from scratch](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/building-deep-research-agent-from)
[Let's build a Deep Research Agent to help you in your day to day work powered by DeepSeek R1 from scratch.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/building-deep-research-agent-from)
Mar 11, 2025 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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### February 2025
[Simple way to explain Memory in AI Agents.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/simple-way-to-explain-memory-in-ai)
[Win a NVIDIA RTX 4080 SUPER GPU!](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/simple-way-to-explain-memory-in-ai)
Feb 26, 2025 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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[Data Pipelines in Machine Learning Systems.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/data-pipelines-in-machine-learning)
[A hands-on tutorial of real time web data ingestion pipeline followed by Apache Spark based ETL.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/data-pipelines-in-machine-learning)
Feb 24, 2025 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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### January 2025
[Building AI Agents from scratch - Part 2: Reflection and Working Memory](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/building-ai-agents-from-scratch-part-8ca)
[Let's implement AI Agent from scratch without using any framework. Today we implement the reflection pattern coupled with simple implementation of…](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/building-ai-agents-from-scratch-part-8ca)
Jan 4, 2025 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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### December 2024
[Building AI Agents from scratch - Part 1: Tool use](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/building-ai-agents-from-scratch-part)
[Let's implement AI Agent from scratch without using any framework. Today we implement the tool use capability.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/building-ai-agents-from-scratch-part)
Dec 21, 2024 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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[AI Clouds and their role in the AI era](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/ai-clouds-and-their-role-in-the-ai)
[And a hands-on project: Mistral-7B powered chatbot on Nebius AI Cloud](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/ai-clouds-and-their-role-in-the-ai)
Dec 6, 2024 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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### November 2024
[What is AI Engineering?](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/what-is-ai-engineering)
[And what you need to break into the role.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/what-is-ai-engineering)
Nov 30, 2024 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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### October 2024
[Memory in Agent Systems](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/memory-in-agent-systems)
[In this article I outline my thoughts on implementation of memory in GenAI systems.](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/memory-in-agent-systems)
Oct 30, 2024 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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[Observability in LLMOps pipeline - Different Levels of Scale](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/observability-in-llmops-pipeline)
[SwirlAI newsletter is back! In this piece I outline my observations about the scale of infrastructure needed specifically for observing your processes…](https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/observability-in-llmops-pipeline)
Oct 21, 2024 • [Aurimas Griciūnas](https://substack.com/@swirlai)
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